About the Authors

Era L. Pogosova-Agadjanyan

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kenneth J. Kopecky

Affiliation Southwest Oncology Group Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Fabiana Ostronoff

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Frederick R. Appelbaum

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John Godwin

Affiliation Providence Cancer Center Group, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Hana Lee

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alan F. List

Affiliation H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jennifer J. May

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Vivian G. Oehler

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Steve Petersdorf

Affiliation Seattle Genetics, Inc., Bothell, Washington, United States of America

Galina L. Pogosov

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jerald P. Radich

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Cheryl L. Willman

Affiliation University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Soheil Meshinchi

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Derek L. Stirewalt

dstirewa@fhcrc.org

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. SP is employed by Seattle Genetics, an affiliation which occurred after the study was completed. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ELP KJK FRA HL VGO SM DLS. Performed the experiments: ELP FO GLP JJM. Analyzed the data: ELP KJK FO VGO JPR SM DLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJK CLW DLS. Wrote the paper: ELP KJK FO FRA JG HL AFL JJM VGO SP GLP JPR CLW SM DLS. Authors developed the trials that supplied the material for the studies: FRA JG AFL SP.